-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 29/06/12 02:58, Allan McRae wrote: > On 29/06/12 15:50, Myra Nelson wrote: >> I have a question about pacman's behaviour regarding packges to >> be updated. >> >> According to < $: man pacman > >> >> You can also use pacman -Su to upgrade all packages that are out >> of date. See Sync Options below. When upgrading, pacman performs >> version comparison to determine which packages need upgrading. >> >> Alphanumeric: 1.0a < 1.0b < 1.0beta < 1.0p < 1.0pre < 1.0rc < >> 1.0 < 1.0.a < 1.0.1 Numeric: 1 < 1.0 < 1.1 < 1.1.1 < 1.2 < 2.0 < >> 3.0.0 >> >> That's very clear and makes sense. Here's where I'm confused. I >> build some of my perl pacakges with cpanpkgbuild -f >> XXX::XXX::YYY. The package from the official repos is: >> perl-datetime-format-strptime-1.5000-1-any.pkg.tar.xz >> >> the package I built is: >> perl-datetime-format-strptime-1.51-1-any.pkg.tar.xz >> >> I'm used to the warning package ??? local is newer than extra >> ???. But with the above referenced package I had to list it in >> the [ IgnorePkg ] line to keep pacman from trying to upgrade the >> package and still get this warning. >> >> "Ignoring upgrade from perl-datetime-format-strptime from 1.51-1 >> to 1.5000-1" >> >> No complaints as it's easy to fix, I was just wondering about >> the reasoning. I'll jump out on a limb here and assume it's >> because the repo package has 4 digits then the package version >> after the decimal point and my package has two digits then the >> package version after the decimal point. The developer changed >> his numbering scheme after 1.5000 to 1.51. >> >> Is this the correct behaviour for pacman? >> > > > 5000 > 51 > > > Yes, some perl packages had that versioning schema, which is confusing.. that said, it's not a pacman bug. - -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP7UTaAAoJEEKh2xXsEzutrPcH/iRPp7SyqtS3XfSfnVq0qXGh 1ubC97p0LT3S2umtB3EojJ5HOCOvkCMCtASflSJW7yeCcv3jiExhSh2R0riQ2d29 3K/56Vhf0hMeNz3OJMgoUVgMicI4ulbWRswERXQqmd27WCqN1odMDJo6x564uC/9 sALz0wVPkqi5fdxtAStoUBIUaQl7OLsv9EdP9OZrttjvN6SmZfN5LQMWvK0qBMfz Y+5a2zT8LmkmUPvMO2VUBC9X9LvtALGPmsUILXzohXdJpjIRE3QsFUmQz1Ie98Vb Pio4Fk5GIcRmsv6hJZicYVXGHpkyZGUgYImIWDeWu1OAAdaaHqEs9+BU3yYslA8= =m/KC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
